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Var. FUSCOLABIATA Rossm. PI. 64, figs. 32-34. 



Somewhat larger than the type, sometimes bandless, usually with 

 the lower band absent, the others so interrupted that the shell ap- 

 pears above to be radiately streaked with white and brown ; aperture 

 and peristome clear brown. Sorrento; Capri; Pcestum. 



Var. POSIDONIENSIS Tiberi. PI. 60, figs. 66, 67. 



Large, decidedly widened, especially the last whorl ; depressed 

 and sharply sculptured. Pcestum. 



Yar. SICULA Benoit. 



Sharply costulate above ; aperture more rounded, fusco-labiate. 



Var. APULA Blanc. PL 64, figs. 28, 29. 



Sculpture more distinct; aperture more rounded, less oblique. 



Taranto. 

 Var. POLITA Paulucci. 



This pretty variety is distinguished by its relatively almost smooth 

 shell, as well as by the row of little spots scattered along the suture, 

 a character which is completely absent in all the typical individuals. 

 I have received this variety from Engineer Molteni, of Foligno 

 (Umbria), mingled with a number of H. gtrigata. It appears quite 

 common. (Paulucci.} 



H. CARSOLIANA Ferussac. PI. 65, figs. 42-44. 



Almost closed perforate, globose sub-depressed, thick, opaque 

 white, with three narrow interrupted chestnut bands, spire slightly 

 prominent, composed of 5 whorls, flattened and narrow, the last wide, 

 very convex, with a very narrow umbilical perforation ; surface ir- 

 regularly striate, the stria? more prominent at the suture, becoming 

 obsolescent below ; aperture small, very oblique, oval, a little wider 

 than high ; peristome thickened within, narrowly reflexed, columel- 

 lar margin oblique, dilated at the insertion. (Fer. et Desk.) 



Diam. 18*, alt. 84 mill. 



It is H. carseolana Auct. and H. marracina Tib., (pi. 66, figs. 84 

 xii. ) 



Central Italy. 



Mine. Paulucci (Materiaux, etc., p. 34) says : "The type of this 

 species, as it is represented in the work of Ferussac corresponds exact- 

 ly with Mt. Maiella specimens which I have received from Dr. Tiberi 

 under the name of H. marrudna (PI. 66, figs. 84-86). It is a shell 

 with the umbilicus wholly closed, with pale bands, so interrupted as 



